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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For this Rapid Response Friday, we answer patron questions on everything from how to examine a warrant to why Donald Trump will never be sending anyone to Alcatraz. We also consider just how bad the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administration’s ban on trans military service members actually is, how the single biggest financial corruption scandal in Presidential history is happening right now right in front of us, and why the forced departure of the acting DC U.S. Attorney is some of the best news this country has had since January 20, 2025. Also: a surreal Black Mirror-style footnote about the first time a U.S. courtroom has ever heard a victim’s statement in a video made years after his death.

Sample judicial warrant
Sample ICE administrative warrant
Trump’s Crypto Conflict of Interest, Democracy Defenders Fund (4/23/25)
Supreme Court’s order in U.S. v. Shilling (5/8/25)
Project 65’s bar complaint against Acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin
“The Ed Martin Show,” Jeanette Cooperman, St. Louis Magazine (4/26/2011)

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0:00.0	You must never ever give out or give in. You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.
0:07.6	That is your calling. That is your mission. That is your moral obligation. That is your mandate.
0:13.4	Get out there and do it. Get in the way. Change happens because people care.
0:26.6	You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:36.6	I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:44.1	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry,
0:47.9	no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
0:55.1	The fight for our country is always worth it.
1:02.3	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1156. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there's real life attorney. Matt Cameron, how you doing? Thomas, I'm having a Thursday, you know,
1:05.7	just not eating one, just suing the government, stuff you're doing Thursdays, having fun.
1:09.2	That's my Thursday plan. You're actually suing the government? Well, not the first, having fun. That's my Thursday plan.
1:12.6	You're actually suing the government?
1:13.8	Well, not the first time.
1:17.3	But, you know, if you ever want to sue the government of Massachusetts, I'm sure I can help you out.
1:17.8	Oh, okay.
1:19.8	So what we have to do now in immigration cases.
1:22.2	We can't just do regular immigration cases anymore.
1:29.0	We have to sue to keep our clients in the state before they send them off to who knows where. Oh, let's collaborate. I'll come eat lunch and you sue the government.
1:30.7	I can watch you eat.
1:34.8	No, you know, we're just doing our part.
1:35.2	Sure, sure.
1:36.8	We have two things that we have to do.
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